Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-27
.4IHqS OF MILLIONIIRES.
p,eh Men Eat and Dress-Jay
B'N AS s,enogrspheT and His Pri-
V'A' vafe telegraph WEres
e ChiIds and Senator Payne as
GsoTs' .-r,-PhU armoul's Son and the
f'u1' vanderbilt and Gou d Boys.
Contributed, 1851, by the Author.

Copyrighted, 1887, by the Author.
--latest cf our millionaires believe
-. -. . 9b;losophy of work. Tney WORK
j ~ IND every dsy, and the brains Of
81 - ~ them boil over their projects IA
n'l! no night. Pail Armour gets Gowr
l'' Cff,e at Z O'Clock IN the morning
" ,- T.v Gould is on the elevated railroat
N. Gould keeps number Of mel
J tend 20 his correspondence, anc
,S.,osipi goes through the letters before
I'D sees them. Anything he has doub'
- he r. fers to Gould and the latter
80 Us tbe policy Of having other man
sly 5;s WORK for hin as far as possible
" =. works rapidly himself, DECIDING upor
" - nrri-cG the moment it comes no.
"a "a thinking IS fsSt IS an electrical cur
' He es.s lunch at DelmOnico's
I.te Keeps s. dem men busy ell day
s. letters and carrying out his in
' -, At o'clock he goes home
"a f7ough he has q private telegraph
1 40 in mis- house, it is said that ne hes
W. 19wer Of throwing of the troubles Q!
- rfice the moment he tgets out
L3aCf1t. He eDioys bis family and pre-
as home to society. He goes 10 bed 81
II s1d is, I an tolc, not troubled with
I5rsm S. Hewitt, on the other hand,
,,s trouble IN getting sBY sleep st slI,
.15 mia work hau0ts him like sn "old-
-.r.of-tbe-sea" He is "a good worker,
.oo and ne saves time by the use OF g
,.sIogrspher. He csn dictate well, and,
Tga Gould, he does not waste time in
z,st lorking over his mail, His private
s.cre4s-v gives him the letters he ought
n sDswer, and he dictates replies in the
5ss- n Anglo Saxon at the rate of l5O
vords & minute. He spends about five
h7urs dGg in the Mayors Cffice at New
York aHd works ss h5Tj as any ten-dol-
I,rs.week clerk IN the country.
WhiselaH Reid is said to De very hard
worker. Jay Cook still carries on mis- Ia
bors at his offise in Philadelphia, and
P7bert Bonner spends about five hours a
d,y IN his saGc'um ct the Ledger flee.
George II. Childs reaches his office az
o'clock. aud remains there steadily until
/ He then gozs 20 DTeX rs bank and
he and Drexel dine together, snd st , re
is hack in his flee Gnd at work He is
not hsyd worker, and be makes the most
Of this life in Ell yiDg such good things
IN /. IS come to his hand. He likes his
iLerds AID be is fond OF society.
?. I. Barnum makes it 2 rule to go TO
bedatlO O'Clock every night. He an
sEefs hfs correspondence in the morning,
attends 70 his teaants and is kept posted
ss 70 how he shows are gOirg on by teie-
grsp1. H ia generally through bis wOrR
bvdinner, which he taxes in the middle
Of the day, and If er this he has 2 short
siasts, doing away in his chair. he
gets up al Z, AID takes 3 drive both
morning and afternoon. He does no.
dn0kpr smoke, ard he is find Of music
an3 wtisy.
George ". ChIdsis q great pedestrian,
sud both he and DreXel take q walk every
Day while BonBer goes 10 his stables as
soon as he comes home from his Office
and spends sometime in fOndling MS
r0rsas. Henry B Payne. the OHIO mil
lODsire Senator Is also ped slriau, snd
be walks from his home near the White
House in Washington to capitol
while be is in attendance upon the Senate
He mskes at least three miles day upon
his feet, sud though he does not weigh
over $50 pounds his flesh is solid and
every ois If It Is muscle.
A. 7. Stewart vas q remarkable
worker, sud 1t is said he knew the "details
Of every branch Of his big establishment
On Broad Way, and during the time thai
his custom duties averaged $50 coo day
he Tss posted on the pay Of he casr
boys who got but s. s week. Stewards
EMPLOYEES were 20 many that he KEEP
De ectiyes to watch them, and his daily
receipts averaged $50 600 day. Stewart
Ras 3 good buyer as well as a good
seller He had his agents all over the
world and it was principle 10 buy fol
cash.
The amount OK money aud collstera
nat some IF these rich men keep on hsDC
astonishing. JSy g uld was once sus-
gectsd Of being on the We &c Of failure
Gld though as q rule he shUns the news
paper msG, st this time le usei him. II,
called an Associated Press reporter int
Il: otice, opened his safe and lowed hin
5e'anties 10 the amount # $4,000, 600
F4 Armour las reports from the bank,
WIN which he does business at the Yari-
Gus cenJeTs, as to the amount Of N anel
-e has On hs2d esch ny These sum,
u.e1rua as nigh as 81, 600, coo and up
NsIcS, and he thus knows sX,ctly as e
~" much he car use N speculation. He
IS s keen SPECTATOR 5nd he deals in mil
mons. He made 81 000, 600 on pork II 6
alse oeai ia 1879, -uu he has low 9
business Of $50, 000, 90.
F2lJ Armour IN q n took his son into
BUSINESS plsced 81, 600 900 20 mis- credit
-aa gave him MS Iull confidence. The
zen proved worthy f his fathers faith il
-,a snd II is said thst the Tels ion be
,.1een the two is the strongest, BORA in &
BUSINESS and iamflF way. Phil Armour
1a'1er took his children into his CO. f.
15-Ce and the boys we're considered to b.
Eailners IN their father'S business aft sirs
ivlng Phil had access TO his fsther'I
SOCAetoook and ne liked his fathers
S.nclp.e Of training children so we'll thsl
n adopted il in the traIping Of b 9 son
rs mother WAS s good business woman
a.l she was shown the We, klJ
VAsnce sheets Of the diferen
armour houses and passed hel
augment upon them. She urged bel
IYaS to stand by each 9th T, aud PAD
SHImlour, in 3 recent talk with Jonn A
@.slcaer OF Albany, said thst he would
ave SHe MS last dollar rather than see one o.
~S brothers fail.
=, speaking OF rich mems sons, the gener
- 'uea prevails that they are destined for
4e devil, and there is no doubt but tho
o. lumber Of them 20 that wsy. The ex
J,pGons are, however, numerous, enC
~ Uould's by George is said to be I
N1lp Of the OLD block and fully the eouo